Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Lloyds Banking Group is set to push ahead with the auction of the Telegraph newspaper and Spectator magazine as early as this week, despite a fresh attempt to derail the process by the Barclay family
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Oil & Gas industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Smaller groups in the US oil and gas sector are raising outside cash again after years of getting a cold shoulder from capital markets, as higher energy prices and stronger balance sheets help
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Whose side are you on — the Israelis or the Palestinians? Do you think that western policy should be to support Israel, in the aftermath of the biggest single slaughter of Israeli civilians since the
Donald Trump is facing fierce rebukes from across the US political spectrum for criticising Benjamin Netanyahu in the wake of the Hamas attacks, a development that could weigh on his 2024 campaign for a new term in the White House. The former US president spoke out on the Middle East conflict several times last week,
The coastal strip of Gaza, the hemmed-in Palestinian enclave under Israeli bombardment, has grown over seven decades of displacement and conflict into a community that is almost unique in the world. Covering an area roughly a quarter of London, Gaza is more crowded in parts than Manhattan — even though it lacks the high-rise buildings.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “The end of bad times.” That was how Donald Tusk, leader of the opposition, described the outcome, based on exit polls, of Poland’s momentous parliamentary election on Sunday night. After a bitterly polarised campaign designed
US president Joe Biden warned Iran not to escalate the war between Israel and Hamas in an interview that aired on the CBS news programme 60 Minutes on Sunday. In the interview, which was recorded late Thursday, Biden said there was “no clear evidence . . . at this point” that Iran helped plan Hamas’s attack on Israel on
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Qatar has brokered a deal to reunite four Ukrainian children with their families after they were separated from their parents in Russia during President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of the country. The children, who
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hospitals in Gaza are likely to run out of fuel within 24 hours, putting the lives of thousands of patients at “immediate risk”, the UN warned as Israel lays siege to the enclave in response
Until last weekend, Ofaimme Farm was a fast-growing food business with eight restaurants across Israel and plans for three more. But its normal service has been suspended since October 7, the day of Hamas’ devastating cross-border attack, and the farm-to-table business has been turned into a relief operation. Employees are now preparing food packages and
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As Israeli forces pound Gaza, Iran has been pursuing its own diplomatic mission: rallying the region behind the Palestinians and the Hamas militant group responsible for last weekend’s deadly assault. With stops in Beirut, Damascus
A macabre video that spread across social media platforms last week showed a young girl being set on fire by a mob, which sharers claimed was the doing of Hamas. But the footage was, in fact, from 2015 in Guatemala, long before the Palestinian group’s attack on Israel. It was just one falsehood during a
The chair of problem-plagued French IT services group Atos Bertrand Meunier is set to step down, throwing the restructuring and asset sale plan he had championed into uncertainty, according to people familiar with the matter. Another Atos board member, Jean Pierre Mustier, formerly chief executive of Italian bank UniCredit, is being lined up to take
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. British nationals sentenced to jail in England and Wales could be transferred to prisons elsewhere in Europe under radical legislation to address the crisis in the penal system to be announced on Monday. Justice secretary
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The chair of problem-plagued French IT services group Atos Bertrand Meunier is set to step down, throwing the restructuring and asset sale plan he had championed into uncertainty, according to people familiar with the matter.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Opposition leader Donald Tusk could return as Polish prime minister, according to an exit poll after Sunday’s parliamentary election that put the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) ahead but with insufficient votes to govern alone
Republicans’ failure to select a new Speaker of the House risks complicating White House efforts to send billions of dollars in extra US military aid to Israel and Ukraine, as lawmakers brace for a third week of chaos on Capitol Hill. Jake Sullivan, Joe Biden’s national security adviser, said at the weekend that the US
At the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, there is no more room in the morgue for people killed in Israel’s bombardment of the territory, so staff have placed 20 bodies in an in ice cream van still decorated with pictures of happy children licking cones. At least 10 bodies wrapped in sheets
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is assistant professor at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Reichman University Israel awoke last weekend to a new and shocking reality that few had believed possible: attacks by Hamas on
Over the past week, Jews living in Germany’s capital Berlin have been waking up to a chilling sight — Stars of David sprayed on the front doors of their apartment blocks. Police say there have been just three such incidents. But for many, they are a painful echo of the 1930s, when Nazi stormtroopers marked
Western capitals have privately urged Israel to delay a full-scale land invasion of Gaza as they seek to limit the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territory and fear that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has no long-term plan to follow the destruction of Hamas. Israel’s military said late on Saturday that it was increasing “operational readiness for